stayed put in diamond, nowhere near the top obviously since I'm never gonna grind like that. just chugging along.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 17 August 2020 09:24 (five years ago)
The Hungarian word for fish is great: tintahal.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2020 14:47 (five years ago)
Squid I mean. Fish is hal.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 August 2020 14:48 (five years ago)
Spanish course just got updated again.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:48 (five years ago)
Don’t see it. Must be in A/B testing.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:52 (five years ago)
Yes, it is. https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/41530472
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 19:59 (five years ago)
Yep, that's what I've got. Good news for me, as I was getting bored again!
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:05 (five years ago)
what happened to the Gaelic?
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 25 August 2020 21:22 (five years ago)
Sadly it fell by the wayside very quickly. I had to admit that I only really have time for one language at the moment.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 27 August 2020 12:29 (five years ago)
I know how it goes. I can really do maybe two at time and still be learning something, although often I push it well beyond that. Anyway, came to say that today my streak reached 2^10 days of Duolingo.
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 August 2020 12:35 (five years ago)
Nice.
Makes me realise that I actually passed the 4 year mark yesterday - 1461 days!
― brain (krakow), Friday, 28 August 2020 16:12 (five years ago)
the french tree got redone again
― maura, Friday, 11 September 2020 01:15 (five years ago)
They also pretty radically changed the German course. Completionists are pretty vocally upset on their forums, having to now redo a bunch of early material to get the tree back to gold.
― Frobisher, Friday, 11 September 2020 19:25 (five years ago)
At some point it is a form of torture to go back in fill in all the new purple circles
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 12 September 2020 00:42 (five years ago)
I don’t recall reading this, which is pretty interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/14/hawaiian-gaelic-yiddish-learn-endangered-language-duolingo
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 September 2020 14:33 (five years ago)
Cha toil leam Calum.
― ABBA O RLY? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 03:27 (five years ago)
This is crazy. There are only four people in my league cohort right now
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:43 (five years ago)
Now it’s up to 42
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:44 (five years ago)
Just saw a new animation for five in a row
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:14 (five years ago)
And another for perfect
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 00:19 (five years ago)
Hello
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 04:43 (five years ago)
I finished the French->Italien tree last week, meaning I got them all to level 1. Now I'm going through for level 2. This is a better way for me than focusing on maxing the earlier lessons at the expense of later ones; I get less bored this way.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 13:07 (five years ago)
Passed the 1500 day mark this week. Next milestone is 5 years.
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 22:07 (five years ago)
How’s the Italian going, Euler?
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 15:56 (five years ago)
Molto buono !
I am working through the tree for the second time. It's a little tougher but I'm making fewer errors than on the first run. The biggest struggle is producing (by typing) whole sentences in Italian, unsurprisingly. I'm happy to have many Italian colleagues with whom I can practice speaking and even writing once I hit that point.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Saturday, 17 October 2020 16:04 (five years ago)
Cool. Years ago I used to post on a Yahoo Italian group which has been on life support and now will finally disappear, thinking of migrating to their new home at https://groups.io/g/Italian, but it is very old school.
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 16:09 (five years ago)
I like Italians Mad At Food but that's mostly in English alas
― All cars are bad (Euler), Saturday, 17 October 2020 16:10 (five years ago)
I feel like my current regime in which I mainly focus on Hungarian, using Duolingo in both directions along with some other resources, is really working for me. I can elaborate further if anyone is interested.
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:05 (five years ago)
Anyway I let myself drop to Obsidian this week. So relaxing. Don’t know quite what the new icon in the app that links to the blog is supposed to be about.
― Here Comes a Slightly Irregular (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 20:14 (five years ago)
Still loving this staycation in Obsidian League.
― Spiral "Scratch" Starecase (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:23 (five years ago)
RIP Tinycards.
― Meet the Anti-Monks! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 November 2020 21:07 (five years ago)
"Molto buono !"
Should this be molto bene? I keep struggling with when to use which. Bene is adverb tho right?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 9 November 2020 21:27 (five years ago)
Think so.
― An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:33 (five years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2xdJiExvUk
― An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 19:34 (five years ago)
It’s actually hard to stay in Obsidian and not get promoted.
― An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:20 (five years ago)
I’ve been in whatever the highest one is, diamond?, for some time. I just chug with my 5 or six lessons a day.
― All cars are bad (Euler), Thursday, 12 November 2020 20:38 (five years ago)
I know I’ve got no one to blame but myself, but losing all 5 of my hearts on a single lesson involving concepts I don’t quite grasp yet is absolutely infuriating!
― Dan I., Sunday, 15 November 2020 17:22 (five years ago)
I’m back in Diamond, in a distant second place behind the local crazy.
― An Andalusian Do-rag (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 November 2020 23:47 (five years ago)
I'm on android and it seems that hearts & gems have finally arrived to my world.
"We've converted your 14832 lingots to 150000 gems..."
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 19 November 2020 20:23 (five years ago)
Heh, cool. I have been trying out the recent Correct Your Mistakes feature and enjoying it somewhat. Also like the new Dutch voices.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:47 (five years ago)
Flevoland is de beste provincie van Nederland.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 17:48 (five years ago)
dat had je gedacht!
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:12 (five years ago)
Ha, is that where you are from?
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:36 (five years ago)
lol - nee joh
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:02 (five years ago)
So I have been delving into the two Semitic languages on Duolingo and neither course is great. They have different, almost complementary problems.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 December 2020 04:57 (five years ago)
Check it out, in Dutch you apparently have a word for water (besides “water”) that comes from Yiddish, “majem.”
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:35 (five years ago)
Ah, it is Bargoens, another new thing I just learned.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:36 (five years ago)
Weird thing in Arabic when the mīm almost disappears after a lām, like in المنتج, although it didn’t do if just then.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 December 2020 02:51 (five years ago)
Finnish has a weird thing I haven't seem anywhere else. In negative sentences there is a negative verb that is conjugated and then the regular verb is the same for all persons.
― Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 December 2020 02:02 (five years ago)
huh weird
I've finished my second full run through the French->Italian tree. onto a third
― All cars are bad (Euler), Friday, 11 December 2020 10:55 (five years ago)